From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 14/25] SCSI: use irq_handler_t where appropriate Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:52:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4655FB1E.7050701@garzik.org> References: <200705232141.l4NLfjq9001203@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <4654BB27.6050706@garzik.org> <1179960902.5569.48.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <465527D7.6030909@garzik.org> <1180015447.3692.6.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47688 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750896AbXEXUwt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 16:52:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1180015447.3692.6.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Salyzyn, Mark" , Andrew Vasquez James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:51 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> James Bottomley wrote: >>> It's not a bug fix or even an enhancement. Historically, it is quite >>> difficult to get maintainers to ack these ... particularly if you don't >>> cc them. >> If neither you nor the maintainers are reading and responding to patches >> sent to linux-scsi, I don't think the problem is sitting in my chair. > > Oh come off it ... You've been around long enough to know that > maintainers are not always watching everything ... it would be nice if > they were, but to give a patch the best shot at review, you try to > attract their attention. Specifically, in this case, you should cc the > maintainers and you should have a subject line explaining that you are > modifying their driver. It is very easy to ignore a patch that's simply > waved at the SCSI list with a generic subject line. If individual driver maintainers are not paying attention to what is going on in their subsystem, and in the kernel as a whole, then the problem does not lie with the external patch author. Jeff